Steffani Jemison

Born in 1981 at Berkeley. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Steffani Jemison uses time-based, photographic, and discursive platforms to examine “progress” and its alternatives. Her work encompasses a variety of media, including video, performance and sculpture, and is rooted in research.

In her work Jemison addresses African-American culture and vernacular as well as the tensions between the private, social and political spheres through a variety of means, often examining the limits and structures of narrative storytelling and linear time.

Her video works are frequently based around early cinematography, assimilating early cinematic tropes and techniques, to question the inherited narratives that form our perception of the world.

Steffani Jemison has taken part in numerous solo and group shows at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, CH (2024); Greene Naftali, New York, USA (2024); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NE (2022); Madragoa, Lisbon, PT (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NE (2019); De Appel, Amsterdam, NE (2019); Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR (2017); CAPC, Bordeaux, FR (2017); MASS MoCA, North Adams, US (2017); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2017); RISD Museum, Providence, US (2015); and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (2015); Whitney Biennial, New York, US (2019) and Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, US (2019-2020).

Solo screening programs include Lincoln Center: Art of the Real (2018) and Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversations at the Edge (2018).

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